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Bred in the Bone
Bred in the Bone
Bred in the Bone
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Bred in the Bone

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“Gangland violence explodes off the page” as two female detectives cross paths in Scotland’s criminal underworld (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
 
Glasgow Detective Superintendent Catherine McLeod has one gangster in the mortuary and another, Glen Fallan, behind bars for allegedly taking him out. But fighting for conviction isn’t going to be easy. This case may be more personal for McLeod than she’s letting on. And Fallan might not even be guilty.
 
Private investigator Jasmine Sharp has a stake in Fallan’s future, too. The gangland enforcer once moved in the same dangerous shadows that her mysterious father lived and died in. And the strange bond Fallan had with her mother is something no one in Sharp’s family ever dares to discuss.
 
As McLeod battles her demons and Sharp chases her ghosts, these two very different detectives will ultimately confront the secrets that have entangled both of their fates—by descending into the Glasgow underworld where vengeance spans generations and everyone has a score to settle.
 
“A polished stylist who spikes his smooth wordsmithery with a quirky Scottish brogue.” —Marilyn Stasio, TheNew York Times
 
“Should cement Brookmyre’s reputation as one of today’s top Scottish crime writers.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
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Release dateMay 6, 2014
ISBN9780802192493
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  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Chris Brookmyre's latest in his Jasmine Sharp series ties up a lot of the loose ends from the previous 2 installments. Much of the mystery of our heroine's past is finally explained as she and protector Glen Fallon survive some very close scrapes . So indeed, a new direction will be needed in future should Jasmine ride again! Another ripping read from the masterful Mr Brookmyre.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Awesome.Such good writing I can almost see the characters as people I would want to know even if they are hot headed criminals. Expertly paced from page one to the end.I think this kind of writing is beyond being just a page turner and it is an amazing page turner-it is something grander. It has grand twists and extraordinarily well defined characters. I want to read everything else this superb writer has written.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Enjoyable Scottish revenge thriller, impeccably delivered as always by Chris Brookmyre.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    If you're going to get mixed up with gangsters, and it's better if you don't, get a mentor who will teach you to defend yourself as violently as possible.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    The third Jasmine Sharp – Catherine McCleod crime/mystery book.This books delves in to the backstory of Jasmine's mother and her father and Glen Fallon, and other Glasgow crime figures. It is quite will done and a engrossing.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    A brilliant instalment in the series. Fallan is arrested for the murder of a local crime lord and the case seems cut and dried. But the victim had a strange symbol daubed on his face, a symbol with a history with which Catherine is very familiar, and which threatens everything she holds dear. While Jasmine, not believing that Fallan is guilty, starts to investigate Fallan's and her parent's shared past, a past her mother was anxious to keep hidden from Jasmine for good reason. A fantastic read, stuffed full of Brookmyre's trademark dark humour, and with unexpected twist and turns to the story. Each instalment in the series brings something new and further develops characters that already feel very real. Yet again he's left the best last as there's something unexpected at the end which has left me desperate to read the next book in the series.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Fabulous - loved this so much. A great story, very vivid, characters were all interesting. Enjoyed from start to finish. Now i just want more of the same. Loved the toned down humour
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This is the third book in the Jasmine Sharp trilogy which intertwines the lives of private investigator Jasmine with Detective Superintendent Catherine McLeod and Glen Fallan the former gangster returned from the dead. Fallan is arrested for the murder of Stevie Fullerton, one of the foremost crime bosses in Glasgow. It seems an open and shut case and one which McLeod is more than happy to pursue with the intent of putting him away for a long time. Jasmine also want to investigate further as it should shed some light on her own past and the father she never met. Her mother was involved with Fullerton's crew back in the day but left that scene when she found out she was pregnant and had refused to tell Jasmine anything about it. Fallan, meanwhile, is saying nothing. Has he waited 20 years to get his revenge or is someone trying to set him up now that he's turned up very much alive? Can Jasmine find out who killed Fullerton and the truth about her father? Will McLeod finally lay to rest the demons that resurfaced since the return of Glen Fallan?This is a very satisfying conclusion to the trilogy. All of the threads woven through the previous two books are brought nicely together in this volume. The character progression continues with the three main protagonists continuing to grow and those on the sidelines aren't just there to make up the numbers. The plot is woven tightly through many twisting pathways so that you're never entirely sure of the final destination. Not sure if there will be any more in this series (the author is reverting to his earlier Parlabane books for his next one) but I will read it if a new one is released.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Flesh Wounds – Brilliant Glasgow ThrillerPrivate investigator Jasmine Sharp in Flesh Wounds returns in the final book of the Sharp Trilogy written by Chris Brookmyre. Brookmyre’s use of the Glaswegian really brings home the Glasgow setting and at the same time this book ties up all the loose ends, in a bloody violent ending. This is an example of the Glasgow Underworld clashing with the police and the occasional bent copper a shine example of the Glasgow crime thriller.Jasmine Sharp is still searching for who her father may be and as her mother is dead she is searching all the people that knew her when she was a lot younger. This will drag her real rather in to the midst of the murder investigation being conducted by the Polis into the execution of gangland boss Stevie Fullerton at one of his businesses. Jasmine does not realise that this murder will drag a lot of history up not only her family history but that of the underworld, bent police and cover ups and a wrongly convicted person in a murder. The murder of Julie Muir 25 years earlier officially had been solved but during this case everything seems to collapse especially when people start searching for the paperwork from the case. Officers are threatened to look the other way and close the case as quickly as possible.Detective Superintendent Catherine McLeod is the senior investigating officer who is also living in fear during the investigation that her past may come out. We see flashbacks of what McLeod has to hide and what it means to her and her family. The biggest question is will that history come out in the light of day.What we do see in this thriller is an excellent interaction of all the characters who are strong use of the Glasgow Patter which you can hear them speak. Through the use of language we can explore the darker side of Glasgow and that language brings forth some brilliant imagery, even more so if you know Glasgow.Flesh Wounds is an excellent conclusion to the Jasmine Sharp trilogy where we get the answers to the questions she has put to herself. At the same time we are sold a pup before finding out at the end the real truth as reader and Sharp can see what has been hidden in plain sight all the time. Brilliant novel by an excellent writer well worth reading and you will not regret it.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Private investigator Jasmine Sharp's father was murdered before she was born, and her mother went to self-sacrificing lengths in order to shield her from the world in which he moved. Since her mother's death, all she has been able to learn is his first name - and that only through a strange bond she has forged with the man who killed him: Glen Fallan. But when Fallan is arrested for the murder of a criminal her mother knew since childhood, Jasmine is finally forced to enter his domain: a place where violence is a way of life and vengeance spans generations.

    Detective Superintendent Catherine McLeod has one major Glaswegian gangster in the mortuary and another in the cells for killing him - which ought to be cause for celebration. Catherine is not smiling, however. From the moment she discovered a symbol daubed on the victim's head, she has understood that this case is far more dangerous than it appears on the surface: deeper than skin, darker than blood; something that could threaten her family and end her career.

    As one battles her demons and the other chases her ghosts, these two very different detectives will ultimately confront the secrets that have entangled both of their fates since before Jasmine was even born.


    Perfect storytelling, excellent construction bringing together, not only the threads of this novel but also the previous two to a satisfying conclusion. I haven't read any of his other books written as 'Chris' so I cannot compare but thoroughly enjoyed this series. Jasmine Sharp is a brilliant character and pitting this "wee lassie" against the might and power of Glasgow's underworld is ingenious and refreshing. Highly recommended
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Flesh Wounds by Chris Brookmyre - Very Good

    This is the third in this new strand of more serious crime fiction by Chris Brookmyre and all the main characters are back: Jasmine Sharp, Glen Fallon, Inspector Catherine Mcleod and her side kicks. I think it's the best so far. Pacy, well written, and more gritty, it still contains a fair amount of humourous banter and it answers a lot of the questions that were raised in the first two books as to all three of their backgrounds and how they inter relate. I hope this doesn't mean that it's the last!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Great read, love most of his stuff.

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